Infobright is gearing up for a press push
There’s another TDWI conference coming up, so it’s time for data warehouse-related press rollouts. Infobright (one of my many clients in this area) will be doing one of them, and ran an early version by me. Customer announcements, vendor partnerships, and so on are still being finalized, but anyhow Infobright has 7 revenue-recognized customers and a bunch more that are sold and in the implementation cycle. There’s a Release 3 of Brighthouse coming up. As one would expect, Release 3’s major claims to fame are the general addition of features (including some which elicit a “You didn’t have that already?” reaction), plus huge performance improvements in some queries (i.e., the biggest bottlenecks in Brighthouse Release 2).
On that level, it’s all standard stuff, as is Infobright’s core pitch — ease, simplicity, low cost, etc., and the benefits of same. But drilling down, there are some rather unique technical claims. These include:
- The administrative benefits of being index-light without the performance hit of full table scans.
- The performance benefits of automatically-maintained aggregates, without the administrative (or performance) hassles of materialized views.
- Compression exceeding that of most columnar systems, but without load speed problems.
My October discussion of Brighthouse shows why those claims are plausible. Whether and how completely they are true should become apparent in the customer base soon. The company’s reports of POCs against Oracle, Vertica, et al. are quite encouraging.
Oh — in other news, the spelling “BrightHouse” has been replaced with “Brighthouse.” (“Infobright” has been “Infobright” all along, rather than “InfoBright.”)
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